Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-05-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST,
Onyx uad pearl jewelry is again in
ffshion.

"A prisoner in the Santa Clara
County Jail. California, has invented q
water-wheel which is said to be great
Improvement on the turbine wheel.
I'm party Of eleven prisoners re-
sently taken from Albany, N. T., tc
the insane asylum at Auburn, were
seven men who were guilty of murder.
Albany Journal.
"A Woodland (Cal.) paper gives
the pleasing information that the
road to Hell's Half-Acre has been
graded and graveled' and is now in o
passable condition.
"A gentleman in Culpeper, Va,
has been regularly paying taxes on
three one thousand dollar bonds which
he supposed he owned, but which, II
has lately been ascertained, were stolen
by his agent several years ago.-BdIi-
more american.
"A young man In Lancaster, Pa,
before going to bed the other night,
hung his pantaloons upon the gas Jet.
The weight of the clothes opened the
stop, letting the gas out and the young
man was found dead the next morning.
Pittsburgh Post.
While Mrs. Rebecca Phillips, Of
Blairsville, Ca, was milking, recently,
she fell back with pain in her head
and died In great agony that night.
The COW. apparently perfectly healthy.
was similarly stricken and died at the
same time.-Atldntd Constitution.
Grapes are now recommended as
remedy for obesity. A pound of
grapes is given the patient to be eaten
the first day, and this amount is in
creased until he can eat five or six
pounds day. Other food is gradually
lessened, and the diet at last consists
wholly of grapes. Chicago Times.
Fashionable Parisians are wearing
new charm. Itconsists OF little crys-
tai locket, in which is inclosed four
leaved clover. which, as we all know.
infallibly brings good luck and the full
fillment of every wish to its wearer.
This charm comes from Austria, where
four-leaved clovers abound, SO it
seems.
The public is reminded by the New
York EUeni,lg Post that Adam and Eve
first saw the light OF day on the 28th Of
October, 4,004 B. c., and, says the Poss,
''it Is curious that the anniversary
should have been unwittingly selected
for the unveiling OF the marvellous
statue of Liberty, the fairest of Eyes
daughters"
Richard Comstock, of Monroe
County, Oregon, wore boots whose
soIes were fastened on with brass wirc.
Recently the leather shrunk and ex-
posed a piece of the wire. A small
particle of thewire entered his foot and
made its way up toward the knee.
Blood-poisoning set In and Comstock
died. Chicago Mail
Near Pembroke, Me-, recently
William Reynolds met with serious
accident while clearing up wild land
with yoke of oxen. His team started
unexpectedly while he was hooking to
aroot and drew the chain hook through
the palm of his hand and out at the
side Of the wrist. He nearly bled to
death before reaching town.
1t is estimated by agents of the
Department of Agriculture that the
bobolink, which is one of our sweetest
song birds, and entirely inoffensive
here at the North, causes an annual
loss to the rice planters of the South of
between S3,000,000 and $4,000, 900.
DR.. Merriam, Of the department, sug-
gests the training Of hawks for keeping
these birds away from the riceiields.-
Washington Post.
"A Shaker In settlement near
Albany tells a newspaper reporter that,
while the order is a little over one hun.
dred years old, it numbers only seven
teen societies, averaging from one hum
dred to two hundred members each.
Maine, New Hampshire. Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New York. Ohio and Ken
tuoky are the States in which they ex-
list, and their numbers are diminishing.
Albany E1press.
1t is told that at Hoosier reunion
In Kansas every thing was lovely, and
the spirits Of the meeting were flowing
freely in q stream Of good feeling for
the old State The sentiment for
Hoosierland finally eliminated in
resolution, which was unanimously
adopted. The resolution was as fol-
lows: "ResplUed, That Indiana Is great
State, that we will never go back on
her, and, also, that we will never go
back to her "-Ransds city Star.
Spies open all night" Is sign In
New York restaurant, and Bowery
plaoard reads "Home-made Dining
rooms, Family Oysters A West
Broadway restaurateur sells "Home-
made Pies, Pastry and Oysters An
East Broadway caterer retails "Fresh
Salt Oysters and Lager Beer, A Sixth
avenue barber hangs out a sign read
ing Boots Polished Inside. On an
other street the following catches the
eye: "Washin Ironing and Going Out
by the Day Done Here. IN Y.
Graphic.
The latest industry developed In
New York is search of the street-car
tracks and the cutters after midnight
with dark lantern for lost articles.
One man says he makes fair living
by picking up things in the street, and
that he has found as much as seven
dollars in small coins of a single morn
ing. 1t had been dropped by peoplo
hurrying and erowding upon the horse
cars. Besides money, watches, knives,
keys, trinkets, hand satehels, ro-
volveFs, bundles, opera glasses, ctc.,
sometimes reward the search OF tho
gatherer. IN Y. Sun.
The mania for collecting postage
stamps seems to be gaining more
ground than ever in France, writes tho
Paris correspondent Of the London
Daily telegraph. Among the most
famous collectors In France is a man
" ho has over a tiillion postage stamps
preserved in Thirteen richly bound
volumes, and arother who keeps two.
clerks employed in classifying and ar
his enormous collections.
Added to this, there are In Paris about
one hundred anil fifty wholesale firms
employed in the trade. and one OF the
best known Of these has lately offered
from twenty to forty pounds for certain
stamps. 4
Colonel Ravenshill recently arrived
at Fort Mcleod. Oregon. from En-
gland, on a tour of inspection and to
purchase horses for the English army.
He found very few among the numer-
ous bands of horses In that section
ssshich falalled his requirements. Ha
stated that the British Government
would purchase about four thousand